Brian McFadden Quotes
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
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The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain't where they need to be to be online, you know what I'm saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer.
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When I see other people out there, involved, and really giving their time and effort for the kids, then I don't mind giving my time and effort for the kids as well.
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Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
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Don't buy furs: that's No. 1. You can start with that. Then spay and neuter your pets. We destroy millions of them a year. Go to an animal shelter for a cat or dog. And read a book about how to care properly for your particular pet.
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The existence of another, competing translation is a good thing, in general, and only immediately discouraging to one person - the translator who, after one, two, or three years of more or less careful work, sees another, and perhaps superior, version appear as if overnight.
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When a wise man does not understand, he says: 'I do not understand.' The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.
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I will raise a book to Brian Thomsen.
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If there is a perfect book to start the year with it has to be Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch.
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Live life today and deal with tomorrow when it comes!
